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diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index 04e85f5a269..c92c45d3172 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -554,11 +554,12 @@ implies @samp{m}, and causes dots in @var{tagregexp} to match newlines as well. @end table - A @var{regexfile} is the name of a file where the arguments of -@samp{--regex} options are stored, one per line. The syntax is the + A @var{regexfile} is the name of a file where you can store the +arguments of @samp{--regex} options, one per line. The syntax is the same as the one used for the @samp{--regex} option, without the -initial @samp{--regex=} part. Lines beginning with space or tab are -ignored: they can be used to include comments in the @var{regexfile}. +initial @samp{--regex=} part. @code{etags} ignores the lines that +begin with space or tab: you can use them to include comments in the +@var{regexfile}. The @samp{-R} option deletes all the regexps defined with @samp{--regex} options. It applies to the file names following it, as @@ -581,8 +582,8 @@ permitting multi-line matches, in a case-sensitive way. @code{etags} uses the Lisp tags rules, and no regexp matching, to recognize tags in @file{los.er}. - A @samp{--regex} option can be restricted to match only files of a -given language using the optional prefix @var{@{language@}}. + You can restrict a @samp{--regex} option to match only files of a +given language by using the optional prefix @var{@{language@}}. (@samp{etags --help} prints the list of languages recognized by @code{etags}.) This is particularly useful when storing many predefined regular expressions for @code{etags} in a file. The |